The stuff i did varied quite a bit... in J2ME i wrote an embedded chatserver which users could logon too using telnet. For my graduation i wrote a program which used the COM port to direct 3 stepmotors, too which a hydrophone was attached (for measuring sound under water)... it had to make a graphical form of ultrasound bundle for physilogical hardware.

probably my current project, which has involved writing a socket app that is compliant with the EtherNet/IP (IndustrialProtocol) and will soon also be complaint with ProfiBUS. These are seperate packages from the core program, the idea being I have an interface application that can communicate to (hopefully any) industrial PLC... given that you have or write the complaint protocol for it.

huge learning curve, both with java and tcp :)

ultimate goal: full sacada package that is not reliant on one protocol.

no point making your program so simple a dummy can use it cause the universe just keeps making a better dummy!

There ought to be a source page where people post their souce. Then you don't end up emailing everyone else! And, to stay on topic, I'm building an extremely small text editor capable of editing stuff in decimal, hex, octal, trinary and binary, as well as in ASCII too, complete with UI. I'm really new to java, so it's really hard for me... heck, you'll probably see more of me on other forums, asking why it does what it does... Have an nice day!

The most difficult project iv done is the one a friend and I are working on now. Trying to make a MUD based off of Robert Jordans world in The Wheel of Time. Makes for fun times and lots of screaming :)

...Trying to make a MUD based off of Robert Jordans world in The Wheel of Time...

A "MUD?" What is that? I it some kind of UI? I'm probably so far off the mark on that... Yeah, don't tell me: with that idea FDR might as well have invaded Mexico after Pearl Harbour. Anyway, what is a MUD? Sounds interesting.

Whats a MUD? Its a multiplayer game you connect to using telnet. Its all text, sometimes colored text. You can walk around into different "rooms", get objects including armor and weapons, attack computer controled characters, and even other players.

I guess graphic games are more exciting than these types of games, but thats where imagination comes in.... imagining 5 massive beasts (other players) running you down and sticking you with swords...

mmm The most dificult software is the the project that i am in... excuse me my english but i'm mexican :D... The project is a compiler of algorithms that can change the lexer and the sintax in execution only indicating the files for it... it consist of two GUI applications the Editor for the algorithms and the Editor of the sintax and lexer files...

Hi!I think the difficulty isn't in writing the program but handling the whole delepment process: analysis, design, coding, testing, writing manuals; and at the begin of all this intervieving the people to see their exact needs. An operator and a manager will give you two different views of the same problem.

Ehm, yes, the most difficul program...I wrote 20.000 lines in ansi C which was, as a matter of fact, an operating system with limited grafical capabilities. It had a programming language for data management anda low level layer for interfacing with the hardware... ahh... good old days...!

Interests:Writing programs that have no real use, but are fun to make (a self-solving rubix cube, for example)

Posted 06 August 2005 - 12:59 AM

Wow...after looking at all of the posts, I'm almost embarrassed to say that my hardest program doesn't involve the internet... (>.<)

No, my hardest (and current) project is a program that randomly scrambles and then solves a rubix cube. The great thing is, I've got it set up to read/write the color values to a file, so that every time the program starts, the cube is in the same position it was when you quit. The only main problem right now is the fact that it's not actually 3D....I'm manipulating java.awt to make it look 3D, but you can't actually see the cube turn...all you see is the colors switching. But that's the target of the next major upgrade I'm gonna make (right now I'm working on changing the time delay from loops to Timers)

the hardest one i did was a Instant Messenger, got it to send text n stuff, just never got around to fixing a few bugs, lol even made it look like a SYN flood attack to IDS systems, my college was pissed lmfao!

Just curious to see what people have done out there in conerns to difficult projects. For one of my computer science classes the professor made us write an assembler and emulator using JAVA with a subset of opcodes. That was one difficult project!

Well, I'm new to Java and programming (I'm 16), and I started to do some tests. My first program was higher/lower: The PC took a random number and you have to guess what's the number. Then the PC tells you wether the number is higher or lower. It was with variable pictures and such. *Proud*

My second (and last for now) was Hangman. It also was with pictures which changes during the game (when you guess wrong). The hardest part was to make the code to let him read an external file to read words. So I could add words without changing the code *Proud again*

Well, I'm new to Java and programming (I'm 16), and I started to do some tests. My first program was higher/lower: The PC took a random number and you have to guess what's the number. Then the PC tells you wether the number is higher or lower. It was with variable pictures and such. *Proud*

My second (and last for now) was Hangman. It also was with pictures which changes during the game (when you guess wrong). The hardest part was to make the code to let him read an external file to read words. So I could add words without changing the code *Proud again*

It may sound stupid, but everybody has to start somewhere =P

16!!?? Cool dude! Very honored to see a young mind on this forum!

We've all climbed similar ladders in our programming career and we to were *Proud* of our creations!!!

All the best to ur programming career and looking forward to see ur participation on the forums!